English Article- Is Librarianship a Teaching Profession in Bangladesh?
Is Librarianship a Teaching Profession in Bangladesh? Aktarul Islam Is librarianship a teaching profession or can a librarian be called a teacher? This must be an awkward question to many as the idea of a library or the profession of a librarian often creates confusion not only among the common masses but a larger portion of the educated community has the narrowest view regarding library and librarianship at large in Bangladesh. Even to many people “Book store” is a library and the person who sells books to the customers is a librarian by profession. On the academic premises also, the librarians are not valued properly by the academics because they do hardly consider “Librarianship” as a teaching profession, rather a clerical job without having a proper understanding of the roles and responsibilities of the librarians. The library professionals are also to be held responsible for this inconvenient library phenomenon. Their inertia to learn, inability to transpire professionalis...